Eric Harrison wrote: >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Seth Arnold wrote: > >>On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote: >> >>>I think you are misconstruing what I was saying. I know that UNIX is >>>waaay too difficult for your mom/receptionist/CEO to use. >>> >>As an aside, every time anyone makes this claim, I like to point out >>that the original use of Unix[1] was actually secretaries writing >>documents. I hope that we, as a species, haven't lost our adaptability >>to new techniques, or even old techniques. :) >> >I'm sure Apple would disagree that UNIX is waay to difficult for a mom/ >receptionist/CEO to use. > But Apple's OS X (their new OS) *is* UNIX. UNIX is an operating system, and ease of use is determined by user interfaces. If anything, the UNIX core of OS X impacted ease of programming and stability, for the better. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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